Moreover, everything that is left over--everything that WE (pardon me for mentioning it) cast into the slop-pail--is used by such folk for making soup." "Always at table you begin talking like this!" objected his helpmeet.
"And why not ?" said Sobakevitch.

"I tell you straight that I would not eat such nastiness, even had I made it myself.

Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips.

Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble.

But have some mutton, friend Chichikov.